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Executive Orders for 2014: Dominick DellaSala

By Dominick A. DellaSala / On January 9th, 2014
Back in November of 2013, President Obama issued an executive order on climate preparedness. Because executive orders circumvent Congress within certain limits, they allow the president to implement action to address climate change and other issues. A few weeks ago I asked some of our authors to create their own executive orders to improve our handling of the environment, and I'll be sharing their responses over the next two weeks.
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#ForewordFriday: Paths within Reach Edition

By Admin / On November 22nd, 2013
As a Sustainability Management graduate student, I was naturally captivated by the latest edition of the Worldwatch Institute's State of the World series Is Sustainability Still Possible?. This book provides the practices and policies that will steer us in the right direction to prosperity, without diminishing the well-being of future generations. As I prepare to graduate and start my career, State of the World 2013:
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Why I listen to Talk Radio: Confessions of a Mediator

By Lucy Moore / On August 13th, 2013
I am a talk radio addict. I listen to everything, including certain hosts you wouldn’t expect someone of my persuasion to listen to. I am fascinated both by hosts and callers, what they say, how they express themselves, what they are afraid of and what they are proud of. As a mediator of public policy and natural resource disputes I encounter all kinds at the negotiating table, and by hearing this range of random voices on the radio I can get a glimpse into what makes these people tick.
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Is Funding Enough? For The Guardian, Pavan Sukhdev Reflects

By [node:field_contributor] / On December 14th, 2012
Corporation 2020 author Pavan Sukhdev, after attending conferences in Hyderabad, India and Bhutan, shared some thoughts with The Guardian's Sustainable Business Blog. Can carefully planned, largely-funded efforts to conserve biodiversity achieve what culturally-driven efforts already have?
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Rants from the Hill: I brake for Rants

By Michael Branch / On July 16th, 2012
I've never been a fan of bumper stickers, though I’ve always thought the idea had potential. Done right, you’d think a bumper sticker could be a sort of ideological haiku, an elegant little distillation of a person’s unique perception of the world. Or, alternatively, that it could express genuine wit by being a joke that doesn’t take too long to tell. And even if a bumper sticker isn’t very likely to prompt people to act, it should at least make them imagine. As in, for example, “Visualize Whirled Peas.”
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Assessing Emerging Challenges in U.S. Environmental Health

By Elizabeth Grossman / On August 11th, 2011
Lynn Goldman, a pediatrician and epidemiologist, has spent her professional life trying to understand and alleviate threats from environmental sources, including the impact of chemical exposures on children. Her interest in the field dates back to her childhood in Galveston, Texas, where she grew up along the Gulf of Mexico surrounded by oil refineries and chemical plants that lit up the night sky with eerie blue, green, and orange hues.
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Travels with Mr. Burns

By Kennedy Warne / On June 23rd, 2011
Sometimes you can push hard on doors of opportunity and they remain steadfastly closed. That was my experience in Cuba, where for innumerable reasons the careful plans I had laid kept being upended by unseen events. But the compensations of travel in this fascinating country are great—not least encountering its pervasive political messaging system. . . Read more »

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